20TH AIMS ANNUAL CONVENTION 2008 A PAPER ON ECOLOGY FOR THOUGHT LEADERSHIP By Shankha Chaudhuri PGDM Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research Mumbai Shankha_c@yahoo.com +91-9320112778 Word Count: 3768 Pages: 17 (Excluding Cover Page‚ Index‚ Bibliography and Illustrations) AUTHOR’S PROFILE NAME: Shankha Chaudhuri EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: |QUALIFICATION |INSTITUTE/ORGANIZATION
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“Radical Evolution” In Joel Garreau’s book “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds‚ Our Bodies- and What It Means to Be Human” Garreau discusses the concept “singularity” along with views from Vernon Vinge‚ Ray Kurzweil and others. Singularity is this drastic change that will take place during a period of accelerating change in particular with technology. “The Curve implies one of the all-time changes in the rules. Those who study it call it “The Singularity”. (p.67)
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Evolutionary Concepts Defining Speciation: BSC and Recognition concept Species are produced by individual speciation events‚ so a single species concept can’t be defining all species. Hugh Paterson’s ideas are significant in understanding evolution. Paterson argues that speciation is not an adaptive process‚ but is a result of the adaptation of intricate bonding mechanisms to a new environment (Paterson). The conceptual basis of his research is the Recognition Concept of Species. He argues that
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The Evolution of The Constitution U.S. Constitution has been the basis of our government for more than 200 years. (Schmidt 35) Since the Ratification of the Constitution in 1787 we have continued to evolve the Constitution to meet our governmental needs. There are many milestones that have led us to our present condition however‚ one event in particular led to the creation of what we are today in society. May 14‚ 1787 the Constitutional Convention was held. Its main purpose was to restore
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Audience and Purpose: This paper is geared towards people who are interested in the evolution/history of different areas in music‚ anyone studying music‚ and people who want to learn about scales. This paper might be placed in a magazine‚ on a website or a segment on the history channel about music. When I was a little girl learning how to play the piano‚ I didn’t like it very much. One reason was that I was being forced by my parents to take piano lessons in the first place. Secondly‚ I had to
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Evolution Lab The finches on Darwin and Wallace Islands feed on seeds produced by plants growing on these islands. There are three categories of seeds: soft seeds‚ produced by plants that do well under wet conditions; seeds that are intermediate in hardness‚ produced by plants that do best under moderate precipitation; and hard seeds‚ produced by plants that dominate in drought conditions. The lab is based on a model for the evolution of quantitative traits-characteristics of an individual that
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Recognizing this tremendous potential of entrepreneurship to bolster economic growth‚ many governments focus efforts in promoting a culture of entrepreneurship in their states through education‚ legislations‚ campaigns and industrial policies. Evolution and Rise of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship can be said to be as old as civilization. Prior to that‚ man is known to have only hunted for food‚ followed by a period during which he began breeding animals and growing crops to feed them and also
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Over time‚ many theories have been developed concerning the way evolution was originated. One of these main theories was that Multicellular organisms originated slowly over the last billion years from unicellular organisms. Another main theory is that Multicellular organisms originated abruptly during the Cambrian (around 500 million years ago) explosion from unicellular organisms. While these two theories are very different from one another‚ many people support each of these ideas. However‚ I am
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As a species continues to reproduce over long periods of time‚ they being to change physically‚ otherwise known as evolution. Evolution is a theory in which organisms change over time and become either better or more complex. ( 1 ) Charles Darwin‚ the Father of the Theory of Evolution‚ discovered that similar birds had adopted different beaks (finches 2 ). And thus‚ the theory of evolution‚ already placed in Darwins head by his grandfather‚ ( 3 ) had been further proven. The French biologist JeanBaptiste Lamarck
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Evolution of the bower In an attempt to entice and mate with females‚ male bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae) have complex displays including dancing‚ vocal features‚ and courtship bowers. Bowers are areas that are cleared and decorated for mating purposes only. Depending on the species‚ the style of the bowers range from simple leaf arrangements to extravagant structures decorated with bright objects‚ and female viewpoints. There has been some scientific research to try and elucidate aspects of bower
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